The URV’s Vice-Rector for Internationalisation had already visited the Moroccan university several months ago
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International students participated in an environmental workshop and visited the URV’s charity vegetable allotments
29/11/2016
Quicker and twice as accurate predictions
With ever-increasing amounts of online information available, modelling and predicting individual preferences for certain products is becoming more and more important. Good predictions enable better advice to be given to users and provide a better understanding of the socio-psychological processes that determine those preferences. Researchers at the URV have created a new algorithm that provides better predictions than existing algorithms
This discovery may raise concerns about safety of nanomaterials for public health and may suggest to revise the security norms at nanoscale bringing attention to the safety of nanomaterials in general
The director of the UNESCO Chair for Dialogue in the Mediterranean, Enric Olivé, has attended the fifth edition of the Baku Humanitarian Forum and given a round table talk on different models of multiculturalism. Like the other participants, Dr Olivé was invited to attend by the Azeri education minister and spoke about “New spirituality and intercultural dialogue: from the disappearance of the USSR to the war in Syria”
The University and the CUCBA of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) will work together to train Mexican doctoral students. During the autumn the rector of the CUCBA, Carlos Beas, visited the URV and the TecnATox research centre to work on the project for 2017
This autumn has provided plenty of opportunities for the Centre for Hispanic Studies to make contact with some Chinese institutions and to develop existing projects. In October, the URV agents for Asia, Antoni Nomdedeu and Ángel Urquizu, visited four Chinese universities
As part of the Staff Shadowing programme of the International Network of Universities (INU), last October we were visited by Alejandro Gariglio, the Design and Image Coordinator of the Directorate of Institutional Communication of the National University of the Litoral (Argentina) and lecturer on the degree in Design of Visual Communication
A delegation from the Guilin Tourism University had visited the URV to discuss possible joint projects between the two universities
The ex-president of the European Association of International Education (EAIE) and head of the internationalisation project of the University of Tilburg (Netherlands), Hans Georg van Liempd, gave a lecture at the University and met with the URV’s Internationalisation Committee. We took advantage of his visit to interview him